Mystic Sisters Spring Conference Registration

Description

Conference takes place in and near Park End Books, 113 S LaFayette St, Greenville, Michigan. Questions? Call 616-302-0216.

Are you a creative woman with a public presence? Are you wanting to find ways to live connected to your body and the traditions of holy women, in a culture that seems to want to turn everything into a hierarchy? Maybe you’re an artist, a writer, a teacher, speaker, or a leader in your church. You need practices that are made for women’s lives, sustaining our unique needs and spiritual freedoms. Drawing on the prayers and customs of the first 1200 years of the church, we will encourage and equip you with prayers, practices, and perspectives to help you thrive in your vocation.

Keynote: “Lex Orandi Lex Credendi For Women” by Summer Kinard, M.Div., Th.M.

THE RULE OF PRAYER IS THE RULE OF FAITH. WE KNOW WHAT THE CHURCH HAS TAUGHT FROM THE BEGINNING BY PRAYING HER ANCIENT PRAYERS. WHAT DO THE MINOR & MAJOR ORDER CONSECRATION & ORDINATION PRAYERS FOR WOMEN FROM THE FIRST 1205 YEARS OF THE CHURCH TELL US ABOUT WOMEN’S SANCTITY & PUBLIC VOCATIONS? WHAT IF WOMEN TODAY WERE BLESSED PUBLICLY IN CHURCH FOR MORE THAN BAPTISM, MARRIAGE, AND CHILDBIRTH? 

Opening Talk: “A body of sorrows and joys: Women’s witness to the God of all people” by Summer Kinard, M.Div., Th.M. This shorter reflection will look at how devout women’s self expressions teach us how to bear witness in embodied, womanly ways that make faith more accessible for everyone. 

Panels: “BUILDING MATRIARCHAL COMMUNITIES IN A PATRIARCHAL CULTURE:

Part One: ONLINE BEST PRACTICES

Part Two: TELLING OUR OWN STORIES”

Panelists: CHARLOTTE RIGGLE, M.A.; KATHRYN MCCORD, M.DIV., MACE; SUMMER KINARD, M.DIV., TH.M.

Movement Class: Gain confidence by getting in touch with your body before you speak or write or create.

Outdoor Time, Weather Permitting

Immersive Scribe Time & artistic discernment exercises to help you tell your story

Craft and loosely structured free time (puzzles, dance, crochet, karaoke options)

Meals will be catered. NOTE: In accordance with older custom, we are not subjecting women to the strict fast of monastic men. Meals will have fish and dairy options as well as meat options due to the high percentage of 35+ women with dietary restrictions due to perimenopausal health needs. If you prefer a strict fast, you might want to wait till our next conference in a non-fasting time period.

Fellowship with other women who understand.

All participants will receive a tote bag, a teeshirt,  an illuminated manuscript workbook journal, and a travel candle.

Most sessions will take place at Park End Books in our meeting room.

Overnight participants will stay in the historic Winter Inn.